With the Covid-19 pandemic, the capitalist machine was forced to slow down and the seemingly unstoppable flow that supply chains had built was curbed, but the profits of e-commerce skyrocketed…
A history of African Photography South of the Sahara: Dynamics, Trends, Aesthetics.
Photography produced by photographers from and residing in sub-Saharan Africa has been poorly represented in general histories of photography…
Muros de viento. Sarcófagos cristalinos
In Muros de viento. Sarcófagos cristalinos, the author proposes to review these two phenomena as opposite symptoms of a new conception of space that was implemented at that time and that…
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Concreta 24, Hosting the ‘mediodía’
From Arab hospitality as a practice of resistance to images created by Palestinian peoples as acts of extreme generosity, the contributions in Concreta 24 (Fall 2024) embrace themes such as memory, diaspora, fluid feminisms and alternative temporalities that challenge modern logics. The essays and visual proposals dialogue with Arab, Andalusian and decolonial cultural legacies, proposing a geopolitical imaginary that interweaves transnational and diasporic traditions, while exploring new ethical and aesthetic possibilities in the face of dominant narrative structures. With the collaboration of Nadia Yaqub, Sandi Hilal (DAAR), Eva Álvarez, Carlos Gómez, Jussi Parikka, Charles Hirschkind, Antonio Collados, Rafa SM Paniagua (La Madraza), Adrian Schindler, Monia Ben Hamouda, Elias Rizek, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Jawa El Khash, Learning Palestine, Lumbung Press, Nicolás Combarro (TEJA).
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Concreta 23, The active composition of presence, Jara Rocha, Nicolas Malevé
Concreta 23 (spring 2024) A rider has gotten off his bike to join a picket, a scientist has abandoned the electrodes to talk to her study subjects, a bird has relearned to fly with a drone, a curatorial team has been perplexed Due to the inherited…
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Concreta 22, Motherhood: «An exquisite suffering», Maite Muñoz Iglesias
Concreta 22 (autumn 2023) seeks to warn of the divergence between the cultural figure of the mother and the biographical fact, between the institution and the experience; express non-conformity in the face of the oppressive expectations placed on…
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Concreta 21, Let’s venture. A genealogy of fantasy media, Jorge Van den Eynde
Concreta 21 (spring 2023) proposes a genealogy of the media, channels and portals that we have used in fiction from the immaterial, mysterious and malleable prism of fantasy. It features the participation of Federico Campagna, Claudia Rodríguez Ponga,…
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Souvenir, Souvenir. An Anthropologist Before Tourism
Fernando Estévez González (La Orotava, 1953- 2016) was always an atypical anthropologist. His research focused mainly on debunking colonial and ideological prejudices of his own discipline, or…
The Virtual Tourist. Image as Destination
The desire to travel and to see other places, inherent to human beings, has always meant more than a matter of mere survival. Our ability to venture ourselves, varying our position in the…
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With the Covid-19 pandemic, the capitalist machine was forced to slow down and the seemingly unstoppable flow that supply chains had built was curbed, but the profits of e-commerce skyrocketed and billionaires became…
Laura Vallés Vílchez: I would like to begin discussing your latest exhibition at Van Abbemuseum, titled A Daily Practice. The show is the result of a three-year research project on the museum’s collection using the…
7th May 2021 I write today, for the first time, to an unintimate audience, to a body I do not know. Or at least to a body I feel severed from. I write to them to say I love them. I write to say that my writing, no matter…
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